The People Gardener Podcast with Rhonda Delaney

Jason Meucci ~ The 3 C's: A Prelude to Leadership

When we make the effort from Day One to do the relatively simple acts of showing genuine Care for the whole person; creating deep Connections between people, purpose and possibilities; and generating opportunities for people to Contribute to meaningful work by leveraging their unique gifts you can make the hard, day-to-day work and big, lofty goals so much more enjoyable and achievable because you've unlocked the best in people and created a shared sense of commitment and accountability. In ...

Rhonda Delaney ~ Filling Your Tank

Filling up your own tank is IMPORTANT! Self-care is VITAL to sustaining your enthusiasm and energy level. Here's a checklist, see how you're doing in these areas... SLEEP NUTRITION/EXERCISE WATER READ LISTEN If the gardener is unable to tend the garden, it becomes over grown, full of weeds and chaos is the result. THE GARDEN NEEDS THE GARDENER IN ORDER TO THRIVE! Your team needs you, a healthy you, in order to grow and thrive

Falguni Katira ~ Becoming Visible

Falguni helps us understand why Radical Self-Awareness coupled with Inspired Action is a vital foundation of leadership L - Listen to Learn E - Exemplify your message. Walk the talk A - Appreciate and Acknowledge others D - Develop others, do not be a roadblock

Rhonda Delaney ~ #BEINTERESTED

#BEINTERESTED It's where you start INTEREST is a must in order to reach CARING and Caring is where the magic happens. Here are a few words that flesh out Interest and that I discuss on this episode. Attentive Fascinated Captivated Intrigued Inquiring Inquisitive Curious Earnest

Rhonda Delaney ~ Finding Your Voice

Sharing your perspective and view of the world is important.   Your team needs to hear from you and your openness to hearing their voice is vital to a productive, inclusive and happy team. Maybe use some of these terms to help get a sense and embrace your voice. Viewpoint Standpoint Outlook Frame of Reference Stance Angle Slant Interpretation Commit to speaking up and finding your voice.  There's always a way to do it respectfully. It takes practice so start today!

Rhonda Delaney ~ New Positionitis ... Yes it's a Thing!

Juliana Caiuby Azevedo ~ Remote Leadership: How to be close to your team when you're far away

It is the leader’s responsibility to be close to the team and to promote actions that create a sense of belonging, it doesn’t matter if it is at the same office or remotely. Here are your 3 Simple Actionable Leadership steps! 1- Set recurring meetings to connect with your direct staff and with overall team. 2- Dedicate time to mindful listen during one to one conversations, listening is caring. 3- Leverage technology to share your vision, good news, pictures, everything!

Juliana Caiuby Azevedo

It is the leader’s responsibility to be close to the team and to promote actions that create a sense of belonging, it doesn’t matter if it is at the same office or remotely. Here are your 3 Simple Actionable Leadership steps! 1- Set recurring meetings to connect with your direct staff and with overall team. 2- Dedicate time to mindful listen during one to one conversations, listening is caring. 3- Leverage technology to share your vision, good news, pictures, everything!

Mary Henderson ~ Why You MUST be Unapologetically YouSELF

Mary is a passionate advocate for all humanity to know themselves, be themselves and embrace themselves and their uniqueness. Understand what you look like in your natural state of being. Who are you? What do you stand for? Become the expert in ONE thing! Become the specialist. Her 3 steps... Understand your gifts and how to bring these into action every day Understand your values and stand by them Understand your specialization to position yourself as the 'go to' person

Jon Kronemeyer ~ The Sniper Approach to Sales Leadership

Leadership, relationship building and how to manage your sales regions and customers more productively. 3 SIMPLE STEPS How to Lead with solutions How to build strong, authentic relationships How to be stronger with your Time Management

Rhonda Delaney ~ Why I'm a People Gardener

Dalia Feldheim ~ Lead like a Girl - Psychological Safety at Work

The quality of our life is the quality of our human connections Here's a few nuggets from our time together DANCE with adversity EMPATHY is a must for innovation HAPPY PEOPLE are more successful $7Trillion a year spent on burnout & anxiety 87% of people are unhappy in their job 13% of people are engaged in their job 20% are angry/hostile Dalia Feldheim- founder of Flow Leadership Consultancy, draws on her own extensive corporate leadership experience and her passion for championing others,...

Rhys Thomas - Conscious Leadership

Your People are your purpose and when you prioritize them the productivity and profit take care of themselves. Rhys teaches us how to bring LOVE into leadership Humility - collaboration/cognitive diversity/acceptance Love - compassion/kindness/caring Transparency - openness/truth/vulnerability

Monique Caissie ~ Building Better Business Boundaries

Productivity Doesn’t Exist When You’re Hiding Under Your Desk or right fighting with everyone! In this episode Monique will share what healthy boundaries look like and how to recognize that yours are being crossed. F - FEAR O - OBLIGATION G - GUILT A - AUDIT I - IDENTIFY R - RESOLVE

Tim Collings ~ Becoming a Better World Leader

Leaders have the best opportunity to change our world for the better. In particular, that leaders at the beginning of their leadership career have the best opportunity to orientate their leadership to making the world better, to have the maximum impact over the course of their career. Do this now by grounding yourself with solid leadership principles that will last (see key 3) and build adaptable, learnable capabilities, behaviors and skills of leadership on those strong foundations. - De...

Doug Thompson ~ Leadership by Story

Doug Thompson is a passionate storyteller and TEDx speaker. He can be found sharing his passion in his LinkedIn videos and mentoring other professionals develop their storytelling skills. He believes that everyone has a story and it is just a matter of unlocking it from the grips of the subconscious mind. Like all superheroes he has an alter ego as an AI Ambassador and Technology Strategist Director for the Education team at Microsoft. In these roles he leverages his storytelling skills to ...

Doug Thompson ~ Leadership by Story

Doug Thompson is a passionate storyteller and TEDx speaker. He can be found sharing his passion in his LinkedIn videos and mentoring other professionals develop their storytelling skills. He believes that everyone has a story and it is just a matter of unlocking it from the grips of the subconscious mind. Like all superheroes he has an alter ego as an AI Ambassador and Technology Strategist Director for the Education team at Microsoft. In these roles he leverages his storytelling skills to ...

Raf Baron ~ The Why and How of Effective Feedback

Nir Megnazi ~ 3 steps to Create a successful transition from Individual Contributor to Team Leader

1. There are 4 questions you can always answer to understand your next steps - who are your customers/clients - how do they define success - what is their biggest challenge - how can you help them 2. Caring is the one behavior that will guide you through decision making. Care for your customer and your team and all answers will result from it 3. Your role as a new manager or team leader is not just to generate results. It is first to build a team that can generate results with quality, qu...

Teresa Quinlan ~ You aren't supposed to be the Top Performer

When we are promoted to leadership it's often because we were the top performer for the role we are now leading. However leadership has nothing to do with the job you were just in - those skills are rarely the skills needed to lead. In fact, 67% of a leaders skills are emotional intelligence skills. This is where leaders need to spend time developing themselves to succeed. 3 Actionable Steps Invest time in earning your PhD for each person you lead. Cultivate your coaching skills. Recogniz...

Mila De Chant ~ Empowerment Erases Fear

Mila is a keynote speaker, culture and people scientist, and visionary who partners with leaders in businesses to drive change in the way we cultivate human equity through diversity, leadership, and organizational development efforts. Mila believes every human has limitless potential to be and become their best versions when the constant epidemic of fear is shifted into courage and empowerment. Mila has spent over 15 years in researching and learning the evolving culture of people and orga...

Paul Haury ~Caught between the Carrot & Stick? You just need belonging!

In belonging, we feel, own and care for each other's success, dreams and failures. We do for each other from our pooled strengths of heart, intellect and physicality in pursuit of our shared promised land. And on that journey, we won't let each other down. BELONGING CHANGES EVERYTHING FOR US. Belonging lessens fear and makes our aspirations achievable from our pooled hearts, intellect and strengths.

Paul Haury ~Caught between the carrot & stick? You just need belonging!

In belonging, we feel, own and care for each other's success, dreams and failures. We do for each other from our pooled strengths of heart, intellect and physicality in pursuit of our shared promised land. And on that journey, we won't let each other down. BELONGING CHANGES EVERYTHING FOR US. Belonging lessens fear and makes our aspirations achievable from our pooled hearts, intellect and strengths.

Stephanie Deschenes ~ You don't need a Title to have Influence

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Jane Turlo ~

Jane Turlo ~ Setting Your Stage

Oleg Lougheed ~ The Power of Your Story

Oleg Lougheed

Wendy Gilhula

Wendy Gilhula ~ Finding the Courage to be You

Virginie Lemay-Vriesde ~ International Leadership

Virginie Lemay-Vriesde

Kevin Ward ~ Be a servant leader, start with you!

Leadership starts with us!  As we apply the core principles of servant leadership to ourselves we prepare to be a leader of others.  If someone isn't interested in being a leader of other people then these principles help us become the best follower around! It helps us be excellent in what we do and who we are! Apply the principle of full personal responsibility by choosing to own ones life as it is. Choose to accept who we are, the good, the bad, even the ugly. Choose to humble oneself ...

Lauralee Hites ~ How Introspection Makes You A Better Leader

Leadership starts with a good hard look inside yourself.  As leaders we all can improve how we observe and examine our own mental and emotional state and strengthen the act of truly looking within oneself. Understand why introspection is key to becoming a break away leader Ways to flex the introspection muscle Learn the 3 questions every leader should ask themselves

Helene Rennervik ~ Design and Love your Life

Gina Riley ~ Leadership starts with YOU!

Nanette Miner ~ Go farther, faster, by developing your leadership skills.

In this episode she talks about how individual's can begin to develop leadership skills in themselves -without waiting for their employer to "deem" them a leader Dr. Nanette Miner is a leadership development and workplace learning strategy consultant. She is the founder of, and Managing Consultant for, The Training Doctor; a South Carolina-based consulting firm that helps its clients to prepare today, for the organizational leadership they will need tomorrow. Clients appreciate Nanette's g...

Amy Krymkowski ~ Reflection in progress: The key to maintaining your highest good

Amy is a motivating and inspirational career coach and trusted advisor. She helps corporate professionals and executives make their next career move. She is the owner of  Better Path Coaching, LLC and is excited to be on her journey to building a positive and robust coaching practice. She also works as a certified executive coach with Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a national outplacement company, where she leads and facilitates individual and group coaching sessions for business executives,...

Genia Stephen ~ Awareness of the Impact of Disabilities

Genia Stephen is a speaker, host of the Good Things In Life podcast, and founder of Good Things in Life which offers resources, courses and an educational and supportive membership for a community of parents who are committed to building a good, inclusive life for their children with disabilities. Genia has a sister with an intellectual disability and a son with an intellectual disability. Her mother introduced her to important ideas and thought leaders early in her life.  She is a Registe...

Lesanne Brooke ~ A Call for Rebel Leaders

We're all leaders in some way, because we all have impact. Using our impact consciously and in a way that makes a positive and sustainable difference, requires a new kind of mindset - a rebel mindset. I believe this is essential to where we are right now - in need of solutions that do not recreate a problematic status quo. Dialogue's newly emerging School for Rebel Leaders is about unlearning old habits, applying key principles and remembering why we are motivated to do what we do. It's vita...

Vikki Yaffe ~ Cut the BS

Vikki brings her delightful British accent along with some very direct conversation about our brain and how it works. She's dedicated to helping people understand what's really going on when they're stuck, living in FEAR & ANXIETY or PROCRASTINATION. Vikki graduated from the London School of Economics and worked for finance and tech companies across London and NYC, before turning her personal development hobby into a successful career as an Anxiety & Procrastination Coach. Her style of co...

Shelley Brown ~ No need to grab your Leggings Leaders - this isn't Yoga!

Like many, Shelley has experienced the peaks and valleys of life in the corporate world. She has over 25 years of experience as a quota-carrying national and regional sales professional for both private and public corporations in the hospitality and technology sectors. She has ridden economic storms, leadership changes, mergers, acquisitions, downsizings, public-private transitions, acts of God, performance reviews, KPIs, great mentors, not-so-great mentors, workplace cultures with every ty...

Shelley Brown ~ No need to grab your Leggings Leaders - this isn't Yoga!

Like many, Shelley has experienced the peaks and valleys of life in the corporate world. She has over 25 years of experience as a quota-carrying national and regional sales professional for both private and public corporations in the hospitality and technology sectors. She has ridden economic storms, leadership changes, mergers, acquisitions, downsizings, public-private transitions, acts of God, performance reviews, KPIs, great mentors, not-so-great mentors, workplace cultures with every ty...

Renta Porter ~ The Connected Leader

Tune in a listen to Renata's more than 20+ years of leadership experience. Her goal for this interview is ensuring that emerging leaders understand the value of connecting to those they lead and how that creates an environment where people love to get to work every day. These might sound like common sense, but not really common practice... 1. Walk the floor daily. 2. Your team comes first. (Don't ditch your 1:1's because you are busy or have to attend so many meetings. And if someone nee...

Lila Smith Say Things Better: Intentional Communication for Connective Leaders

Lila Smith is the owner of Say things Better. I leader in intentional communication that utilizes her theatre skills to help us understand how to present information in a way that will be received. Communication is kinetic. You can direct its path and impact starting at the source: your intention. They’re the 5 steps of the Say Things Better Method of Intentional Communication: 1. MOTIVATION 2. OBJECTIVE FOR ONE COMMUNICATION EVENT 3. COMMUNICATION PARTNER’S OBJECTIVE 4. TOOLBOX 5. VERB YO...

Devin Craig - Building Intentionally Awesome Culture

Devin Craig is the author of Super Manager Culture is the next major transformative competitive advantage yet to be unlocked that will change every part of our lives. Building clarity as the foundation of culture, followed by specific skills and mindsets of people managers and highly cohesive teams. Be a Culture Champion!

Caroline Fernandes - Purposeful Self work for Leaders OR Becoming YOU

Caroline Fernandes helps us understand how to Understand ourself better Becoming YOU - which is focused on understanding purpose, mission and core values, and how that can be carefully designed to help leaders be more present and more intentional in their lives and workplaces

Ginger Johnson - Connecting for Leaders

Ginger shares her "Connecting changes the world" message and the steps on how to connect. We'll also discuss a few excerpts from her book The Connectivity Cannon

Claude Silver - Leadership in Action

Claude shares her philosophy and knowledge about leadership. She leads over 800 people at Vaynermedia with offices around the world